With Pope Francis' homily before over 6 million people in Manila's Rizal Park, on Santo Niño Sunday. "We are all God's children. That is what the Santo Niño tells us. He reminds us of our deepest identity."

On January 16, in a Meeting with Families in Manila, Pope Francis warned against a "new ideological colonization" seeking to destroy the family and praised Paul VI for strongly defending openness to life.